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We are Wikipedia editors ranking within the top 0.1% of users in terms of edit count. AMA.
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I am A09 (u/DaSecretSlovene), a Slovene Wikipedia administrator and checkuser as well as global rollbacker active in crosswiki antivandalism work. Ask me anything! I edit Wikimedia projects as my hobby for about four years as of 2024 and have about 120k edits. As said I am a Slovene Wikipedia administrator and checkuser, these actions also presents most of my editcount. Been active for four years and mostly dealt with handling vandalism as well as detecting and removing copyright violations on various Wikipedia projects and recently received global rollback rights for this. Admin rights allow me to block/unblock users and delete/restore/protect pages as well as delete log entries. As far as my checkuser right goes it helps me detect forbidden alternative abusive accounts on Wikipedia.
Proof: link to my account is on Reddit profile, however here is also the link to my global account view: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=A09 My Reddit username is also mentioned on my Wikipedia userpage (https://sl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Uporabnik:A09&diff=6190538&oldid=6188235).

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Hi! I am Prodraxis (u/thatwikipediangirl), a Wikimedian since 2023 with experience in anti-vandalism/anti-spam, writing content, checking new pages to make sure they meet Wikimedia policies, participating in internal project discussions and more! As of right now, I have 8000 edits on the English Wikipedia and more than 10000 globally, which put me in the top 0.1% of all editors on the English Wikipedia. As you can see, I mostly edit the English Wikipedia, but more recently, I've been involved in Wikimedia Commons (a free image depository) dealing with logo copyright and in Wikidata (a knowledge database that serves as an "integration hub" for articles regarding the same subject that exist on multiple language wikis) updating outdated descriptions. Feel free to ask me any questions you have about editing Wikipedia; I will be happy to answer them! (Proof: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Prodraxis/Proof\_for\_Reddit\_AMA)

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We both spend a significant amount of our free time editing this website to help improve its quality, often devoting 9 hours a week dealing with malicious actors that compromise the neutrality of the website, copyright issues, trolling, corporate spam and more! Not only do we maintain the encyclopedia, but we also spend a good amount of time writing new articles (and even nominating them to be on the Main Page at times) in addition to this.

This AMA will be held for about 10 hours.

Thanks in advance, A09 and Prodraxis

EDIT: Thanks for everyone that participated in this AMA, it is over now! It was fun doing this and maybe who knows, we might do this again in the future. :)

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